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of Australian Coal . 
Chemical character .—Barns with a white splendid 
flame, easily lighted, but imperfectly agglutinating: its 
proximate constituents are,— 
Charcoal . 60* 
Bitumen . 37* 
Earthy matter. 3* 
Applied to the production of gas, one pound gives two 
cubic feet of an illuminating gas similar in its brilliancy, 
and in the nature of the concomitant gases, to that ex¬ 
tracted from Jerusalem coal; the quantity of coal-tar is 
also the same, but there is less coke. 
Analysed with peroxide of copper, the quantities of its 
ultimate elements, when the earthy matter is abstracted, 
will stand in the following proportion :— 
Carbon. 74*3 
Hydrogen. 10*4 
Oxygen. 4*2 
Nitrogen . 10*1 
Geological situation .—From the examination of the 
locality, and from that of the intervening country between 
the Coal River and Jericho, this coal formation appears 
to be a continuation of that of Jerusalem : its external 
and chemical character, with that of its geological situa¬ 
tion, as illustrated by the following section, from a pit 
at a Probation Station in the neighbourhood, identify 
its seam with the upper one of the latter locality. 
Feet. 
1 Soil. 
2 Alluvial clay. 10 
3 Sandstone . 13 
4 Greenish sandstone . 3 
5 Clay, blackish, with impressions 2 
6 Coal. 3 
